in reply to Launching HTML File

I believe Windows systems have start for opening the default browser. You could check this from the command line:

start http://www.perlmonks.org

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Re^2: Launching HTML File
by mvaline (Friar) on Feb 04, 2011 at 17:01 UTC
    The equivalent command on Mac OS X is open. On Linux, some desktop environments offer a similar capability: Gnome offers gnome-open and KDE offers kde-open. Sometimes, the $BROWSER environment variable is set to the default browser.